Sentences with phrase «films out of the dozen»

There have been no total duds and only 2 underwhelming films out of the dozen I've seen.

Not exact matches

After more than three dozen women have come forward to accuse Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault and harassment, George Clooney and Matt Damon have spoken out about the powerful Miramax head who helped launch their careers.

It might take a couple hours to get through, but the rigorous deconstruction of some of the pseudoscientific silliness in the movie, the positive and generous attitude she presents towards the intentions of the producers and stars of the film, and the dozen or two laugh - out - loud points all make the time spent well worth it.

The film is hilarious, if viewed in context, but of course having watched it dozens and dozens of times since my first viewing in the early 1960's in an «art cinema» in Greenwich village, I no longer laugh out loud, but enjoy my silent amusement, because I love satire.

The end credits include dozens of actors and actresses whose scenes had been given the axe, either down to just a token appearance or out of the film altogether.

I've also cheated and done a Top 20, and even that misses out at least a dozen films I'd love to have included - not to mention a handful of films I either missed on release or won't get to see until later.

Haggis» journey into and out of Scientology could have made a fascinating film by itself, and he's just one of a dozen articulate talking heads.

All it takes is a short stroll to the lowest level of the massive Palais des Festivals to check out dozens of stands by various national film institutes, distributors and production companies.

Coming on the heels of last year's Hill Of Freedom — one of Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iof last year's Hill Of Freedom — one of Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iOf Freedom — one of Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iof Hong's best films, and his funniest — Right Now may feel like a retreat, but the fact is that the director is still better than just about anyone at drawing out the complex subtleties of a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at iof a missed connection, and having done it a dozen times before seems to have only made him better at it.

Nobody sets out to make a terrible film, and even the worst films feature a lot of hard work from dozens, if not hundreds, of people.

The Film Arcade, which is distributing the film, cited dozens of sold out showtimes for the buzzy title, which has a perfect current Rotten Tomatoes score of 100 percent.

Over the past decade, Andrew Jones has written, produced and / or directed a dozen films, including Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection, The Amityville Asylum and Poltergeist Activity, and two more are due out before the end of August: Conjuring the Dead (formerly known as Valley of the -LRB-...)

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It's well - meaning, innocuous stuff in that vein, although I could easily cite dozens of better films to come out in recent years with the same message without the high overhead this one carries.

If you pay attention to social media, you can argue there is plenty of passion for films like «Call Me by Your Name,» «Star Wars: The Last Jedi,» «Get Out,» and about a dozen others.

On the evidence of the Cheaper by the Dozen films, Bringing Down the House, and The Out - of - Towners, Martin had pretty much spent his wild - and - crazy cachet years before, suggesting the Sellers insult could only lead to a Martin injury.

But this extra layer makes Catch Me If You Can memorable, and helps separate it from the dozens of other similar films out there today.

Like I pointed out earlier, Carlos takes place in a dozen different countries and features nearly the same amount of different languages spoken in the film.

A title says that after 2006 (when her Iraq film «My Country, My Country» came out) she was placed on a secret government watch list and thereafter stopped and searched dozens of times as she tried to enter the U.S..

Sundance has grown from the small American independent film festival it was 30 years ago, and now has about a dozen sections with some presenting films in competition, and other sections presenting films out of competition.

Going against the grain of its very premise, it also posits that anyone with a costume can be a superhero, as we see dozens, if not hundreds, of the foolhardy come out of the woodworks in order to be the next Kick - Ass, despite the fact that Kick - Ass himself seems to have learned few skills beyond that which we saw him perform in the first film.

Understanding that you can't see everything (although you can for an amazingly low $ 150 for a full - festival pass of over two dozen films), I thought I'd pick out a highlight from each day.

No sooner has ROWE returned to their fold - out seats, then dozens of blue - clad Japanese mechanics rush past, carrying tyres, wheel guns and even an in - house film crew, ready for the # 114 Subaru WRX STI.

Enemy design is rather varied as the majority of the dozen or so enemies have unique attacks or abilities and vary in size, but have two things in common as they are all capable of creeping up from anywhere even through vents or sewers and look as though they are straight out of the most horrifying of horror films.

For most, they only truly believed when Microsoft got permission to dig up the site in 2014 for a documentary film and pulled out dozens of E.T. cartridges (and confirmed that thousands, perhaps millions, were buried in the dirt).

Dozens of characters make cameo appearances; if you grew up with a Nintendo (and if you're reading this you probably own at least three), you'll get a lot more out of the film than a non-gamer.

Out of the half - dozen showcases of foreign artists, Morris's exhibition sits most comfortably in a contemporary Chinese setting, not only because of her eighty - four - minute - long documentary film focusing on the 2008 Olympic Games, but also due to the super-seductive and bizarre appearance of the show, which incorporates gigantic LED screens and flamboyant painted bandings.

Huyghe's video reconstructs the set of Lumet's film, but he allows Wojtowicz himself, now a few dozen years older and out of jail, to tell the story of the robbery.

As Deadspin wrote Monday, the downtown area of the small town had begun to «resemble the lit - up scurrying of a movie set,» and the town had parceled out areas where the dozens of TV crews could film their on - location reporters.

Still, Funk's model was a big advance: It allowed the technique to work well with huge data sets, even those with lots of missing data — like the Netflix dataset, where a typical user rated only few dozen films out of the thousands in the company's library.